Freelance
Traveller

Author's comment: Here is a starport manager to be used as a
PC for anyone brave enough to actually run a sniveling, sadistic,
backstabbing li'l coward. Pretend that he looks like an evil Danny deVito
clone from "Taxi".

Personal Profile

Louis Kravicks was born to a poor family. His father had abandoned the
family because the wife was an obnoxious dominating bitch. Thus he, and his
2 sisters were raised by her alone. His mom worked as a secretary for an
upper level manager at the Starport Administration.

Constantly teased for
his shortness and fatness, he became sullen and withdrawn. Even his own
sisters ridiculed him. His only way to fight back was to use sharp, acidic
comments. He was often beaten up in school. He did poorly in school because
of his social woes, despite a very high intelligence. The career consultants
somehow made him feel as if the failures were his fault. They said he would
amount to nothing. Since that report, his mother focused her attentions on
the sisters as if Louis's fate of failure were already sealed. He tortured
small animals in the basement.

After both sisters went off to college, his
mom pulled some strings to get little Louis a job at the starport. She felt
that he would be a bum if she hadn't done that...something she reminded him
of over and over and over.

He hated his mother and never addressed her as
anything other than "mother". He was secretly happy when she 'died'. She had
fallen down the basement stairs and fractured her skull. It was ruled an
accident.

A few years later, his oldest sister was caught drunk and
prostituting herself in a startown bar. He had her starport visa revoked
permanently. She died of a drug overdose in a gutter not long afterward. His
younger sister married and can't be found. Louis Kravicks may have a few
ghosts in his closet, but no foul deeds were ever proven.

After being
forced into retirement, he decided to take a long vacation and not look
back. He'll ship with anyone who'll take him.

His knowledge of procedure
and redtape and how to avoid it makes him a valuable asset to small tramp
shippers. Tramp shippers don't ask to closely into his past either. Louis's
ghosts are still hidden and he'll do whatever it takes to keep them hidden.

Louis Kravicks is a bitter sadistic cowardly little man. He comes across as
an evil vengeful dwarf with no morals and nothing good to say about
anything.

He is short, fat and balding. He fancies himself a lady's man
and turns evil when turned down.

He is a coward and quickly backs down
when faced with physical harm. He will always attempt some form of revenge
however. Should someone treat him like a human despite all this, he'll form
a bond and trust that person.

He is useful on a ship because of his huge
level of skill with redtape and legalese involved in running a starport.

History

Louis Kravicks was able to secure a place as a 'gopher' at the starport
administration because of strings pulled by his overbearing mother. He
quickly got a reputation for being a sniveling little bootlicker among the
blue-collar employees. While this attitude enhanced his position and even
promotion within the administration, it also nearly ended his life.

An
older employee, near retirement, was deemed 'lazy' by Louis and written up
for discipline. The older man was fired and lost his retirement benefits.
Soon after this, Louis lost two fingers on his left hand. It was deemed an
accident by management investigators; anyone could've been caught with his
hand under a crate of combine parts. Word on the tarmac is that it would
only have happened to "Lucifer" Kravicks though...and the word was always
followed by a bitter laugh.

He was promoted to Supervisor of the port's
motor pool, and quickly alienated his mechanics and ground crew with his
ridiculous demands and 'efficiency' ideas. Upper management moved him to
third shift in order to minimise frictions that kept work from being
completed. Only basic maintenence work was done on that shift and 'problem'
workers seemed to find their way there. Louis raised hell about it and
claimed discrimination. Management promoted him to an upper office to keep
him quiet and move him into a position where he couldn't do much harm. He
rubbed the promotion in the faces of those beneath him when he took title of
Assistant Manager.

Louis grew more bitter as time went on. It had become
obvious, even to him, that his 'work' was busy work designed to keep him
from meddling in the actual running of the starport. He began to use his
knowledge of procedures to make life difficult for those he blamed and to
even make some money on the side through bribes and favors. He became a
hated sight and union reps began to avoid him. His mother died that year.

He got his break during a major storm when upper management couldn't be
reached. Louis Kravicks ruled starport during that week with an iron fist
and made sure that he received all credit for keeping starport open. He
became manager when it became public knowledge that the previous manager was
not available for the emergency due to 'drunken debauchery'...Louis acted
all upset about it and tsk'd as much as anyone.

Many workers took early
retirement that year.

Imperial representatives took note of how labor
relations had deteriorated over the past 6 years and pressured the starport
administrator to remove Louis Kravicks or else face certain trade
restrictions due to reduced starport capacity.

Unable to out and out fire
him, they promoted him instead into the post of Executive. As an appointed
position, it could be removed at any time, thus giving the SPA a legal way
of getting rid of Louie.

After being given the hardest (impossible) jobs
and forcing him to accept blame, they finally had an excuse to give him the
pink slip. They gave him a choice; retire or be forced out. There was no
real choice. Louis Kravicks retired.

He was given the bare minimum
retirement package as a slap in his face for his poor work done.